"The Department of Transportaiton announced on Friday that workers will "begin installing" center-running bus lanes on Brooklyn's diagonal spine between Livingston Street and Fourth Avenue - but buses won't start moving faster on the stretch north of Grand Army Plaza until the fall of 2026, more than full four years after the city first did outreach for the project. The full plan which includes pedestrian bump-outs and bus boarding islands will have to wait until the spring, officials said."
"The Flatbush Avenue project sat more or less on the shelf at DOT after it first conducted outreach for potential bus lanes on the corridor back in 2022, Adams's first year in office, when Hizzoner did show up on Flatbush Avenue to tout his plans to build 150 miles of bus lanes in his first term. He didn't come close."
The Department of Transportation will begin installing center-running bus lanes on Flatbush Avenue between Livingston Street and Fourth Avenue, with a short stretch active this fall. Buses on the stretch north of Grand Army Plaza will not see faster service until fall 2026. The full plan, including pedestrian bump-outs and concrete median bus boarding islands so buses need not pull out of the lane, will wait until spring. The project was first pursued in 2022 and stalled; the new installation will be only the second bus lane Mayor Adams has put in his home borough.
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